抵抗

to resist / resistance

Characters and words in 抵抗

dǐ = di + Ø3

to press against / to support / to prop up / to resist / to equal / to balance / to make up for / to mortgage / to arrive at / to clap (one's hands) lightly (expressing delight) (Taiwan pr. [zhi3] for this sense)

抵 = 扌 + 氐 : Hostile aliens want to invade the space station, but Dorothy Gale (di) resists (抵) by pressing (抵) with a toy claw (扌) against the space station's (Ø3) foundation (氐) which is about to break under the aliens' attacks.

抗

kàng = k + ang4

to resist / to fight / to defy / anti-

抗 = 亢 + 扌 : After hours of creative thinking in Angwor Wat's bathroom and not coming up with anything, Karl Marx decides to fight his image of successful authorship and rips his turtleneck to pieces using two toy claws.